What do female Olympians and Supreme Court justices have in common? Apparently the media can’t stop focusing on their husbands (or lack of them)

The headlines and tweets in recent days about the media’s gendered coverage of female Olympians are strikingly similar to findings from a media study I conducted with Professor Hannah Brenner on the gendered coverage of female Supreme Court nominees. (Remember the headlines when Obama nominated Justices Kagan and Sotomayor? “Then Comes the Marriage Question” was one of many in this vein…)